The Radio Vagabond

While I'm working on episodes for the next season, I'll give you some flashback episodes that you might have missed. This one was recorded in December 2017 and is from my visit to Senegal. Find pictures and more here: Welcome to Senegal . We will kick off Season 5 in September.

While I'm working on episodes for the next season, I'll give you some flashback episodes that you might have missed. This one was recorded in August 2019 and is from my visit to Sri Lanka. Find pictures and more here: Unique Experiences in the Center of Sri Lanka . We will kick off Season 5 in September.

While I'm working on episodes for the next season, I'll give you some flashback episodes that you might have missed. This one was recorded in August 2017 and is from my visit to New Orleans, USA. Find pictures and more here: Tarot Card Reading & All That Jazz in New Orleans . We will kick off Season 5 in September.

While I'm working on episodes for the next season, I'll give you some flashback episodes that you might have missed. This one was recorded in August 2017 and is from my visit to Nicaragua. Find pictures and more here: Learning Spanish and meeting the locals in Nicaragua . We will kick off Season 5 in September.  

While I'm working on episodes for the next season, I'll give you some flashback episodes that you might have missed. This one was recorded in April 2017 and is from my visit to Japan. Find pictures and more here: Top 3 Things to See in Japan . We will kick off Season 5 in September.  

This special bonus episode will so much meta on so many levels.   Let me start by rewinding about a year back. I was approached by someone who was in the process of starting a brand-new radio station in the UK. The plan was to build their programming around good podcasts from around the world. And they said that they would like to have The Radio Vagabond on the program.   I thought it sounded quit...

While I'm working on episodes for the next season, I'll give you some flashback episodes that you might have missed. This one was recorded in December 2017 and is from my visit to The Gambia. Find pictures and more here: Luxury in the Forest in The Gambia . We will kick off Season 5 in September.

While I'm working on episodes for the next season, I'll give you some flashback episodes that you might have missed. This one was recorded in August 2019 and is from my visit to Sri Lanka. Find pictures and more here: Welcome to Sri Lanka . We will kick off Season 5 in September.

While I'm working on episodes for the next season, I'll give you some flashback episodes that you might have missed. This one was recorded in May 2017 and is from my visit to Quebec City, Canada. Find pictures and more here: Quebec City Is a Charming Laid-Back City We will kick off Season 5 in September.

After I left Pietermaritzburg, I went to St. Lucia – the hippo place of South Africa. There were signs everywhere saying that the hippos roam in the streets at night. The day after I joined a Hippo & Croc Boat Cruise  in iSimangaliso Wetland Park just outside St Lucia, and I was picked up at the hostel and got into an open minibus with some of the others and our guide Ndu. It's a 2-hour boat tour,...

Greetings from KwaZulu-Natal! Welcome back to the next instalment of my enchanting road trip across South Africa. This episode is part 5 of my journey, so if you have missed the previous 4 episodes then I suggest you go back and catch up, otherwise you will never know just how I ended up here. I left Durban in the rear-view mirror of my hired Toyota Corolla en route to Lesotho - a tiny country com...

Groete van Durban! Welcome to the next instalment of my amazing road trip across South Africa. In this episode, you still find me in the vibrant coastal city of Durban - but more specifically, perched on top of one of the city's most renowned landmarks, Moses Mabhida Soccer Stadium. Just what exactly am I doing 106 meters (348 ft) from the ground? I'm about to jump… The reason why I am about to ju...

Molweni! Welcome to Part 3 of my epic road trip across beautiful South Africa. In this episode, we pick up where I left off in Part 2 , leaving local bungy jumpers at Bloukrans Bridge on my way to Port Elizabeth. But not long after I hit the N2 national highway I made a scheduled stop at one of South Africa's rare gems. The exquisite Tsitsikamma National Park is nestled along the southern coast of...

Welcome to the second half of my meetings with Tarek Kholoussy.  If you haven't heard the first half yet you should definitely do that first and then come back here for the second part. In the first one that was recorded back in December 2018 when we just arrived in Brazil on the Nomad Cruise from Spain, Tarek talked about him fulfilling three big life goals:  To run 25 marathons, to visit 100 cou...

This and the next episode are about a nomad called Tarek Kholoussy, recorded in two continents. In Brazil and Bali. Tarek's life had taken a huge turn a few years back, and today and tomorrow you will hear about that. This is the first half of Tarek's story, and get ready to meet a super interesting guy.  It's a story about change, about goals being fulfilled, signs from the universe, and a bit of...

Welcome to day 3 and 4 of my road trip from Cape Town. In this episode, I visit Safari Ostrich Farm in Oudtshoorn here on the Garden Route in South Africa. It's the only Tractor Safari on an Ostrich Farm in South Africa, and it's interesting to see and learn something new about this weird bird – a specie whose ancestors have been around since the age of dinosaurs.  Then I head to Knysna – a quaint...

The Radio Vagabond podcast is back...! This is an episode that was recorded pre-Corona and is the first leg of my road trip from Cape Town to Johannesburg. I start driving Garden Route to Cape Agulhas – the southernmost point of Africa where the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean meet.  Then I head north towards Oudtshoorn and on the way I visit Ronnies Shop that had its name changed to Ronnies Sex Sho...

This is really a story of connecting the dots as Steve Jobs talked about.  This guy went from studying to be a nurse – to becoming a soldier in Kuwait – to being stationed in Guantanamo – to working for the FBI busting criminals – to landing a high-paid job while being drunk in a karaoke bar  – to doing spy-stuff and nearly getting killed in a rocket attack in Afganistan – to becoming an app devel...

As a full-time solo traveller, it's always great to have visitors, especially from your kids.  You might remember that my youngest daughter travelled with me for four months at the beginning of my journey to Asia. She met me in Bangkok, and then we were in Chiang Mai, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Hongkong, China, North Korea, South Korea. And when we got to Japan, my oldest daughter joined us, and we...

This episode is recorded in November, before the Coronavirus outbreak. Since then, Matt Kepnes has tested positive for COVID19 – but as he's telling on his blog , he's feeling better. - - - - - - -  Matthew Kepnes is an American travel blogger, and among travel bloggers he's a rock star.   He's a New York Times bestselling author and has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, National Geographi...

Welcome to the second half of my visit to a child and youth care centre in Cape Town.     If you haven't heard the first half, you should listen to that one first. And then you will know that Florian Kraemer, the CEO and founder of this place called Vulamasango is so passionate about caring for these kids. He goes out of his way to do what is right.   He tells about a specific girl in the children...

We're in the Cape Flats – the township-areas around 25 km/15 miles south-east of what we know as the city of Cape Town. Here we meet the CEO and founder of Vulamasango , Florian Kraemer.  This is a remarkable story that comes full circle, about a man that was saved by a young African boy when he was just a teenager himself. At that African boys ends up getting killed in an attack in the civil war...

In this episode, I speak with Jason Moore. He's an American living in Norway, who does a popular podcast called Zero to Travel .  LINKS:  Zero to Travel Zero to Travel on Facebook . Location Indie . Sponsor  Hotels25.com   The Radio Vagabond is produced by RadioGuru . See pictures on  TheRadioVagabond.com    You can follow The Radio Vagabond on  Facebook ,  Twitter ,  Instagram , and  YouTube .

It's Sunday, March 15th 2020. This is a special episode where we dive into the situation of the world right now. Both my own and the effect it has on my travelling friends around the world. How should I react to my government's recommendations? GÆSTER: Toti from  Italian Trip Abroad . He's an Italian living in London.  Nick and Margherita from  The Crowded Planet . They are in Milan, Italy. Becky...

Today we're meeting Sean Tierney. I got to know him through Nomad Cruise and he's got an interesting story, that he's sharing with us today. After Nomad Cruise X we both ended up in Bali and got to hang out even more.  He's also nomadic like me. Well, partly nomadic now. We started around the same time but he travels slower than me – hence the title "Sean Tierney is Slowmadic". He's also a podcast...